Bruce Lee Quotes

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and
you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ― Bruce Lee

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to
endure a difficult one” ― Bruce Lee

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be
assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through
it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a
cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle.
You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can
crash. Be water, my friend.” ― Bruce Lee

“Be happy, but never
satisfied.” ― Bruce Lee

“Mistakes are always
forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” ― Bruce Lee

“Love is like a
friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and
fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts
mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” ― Bruce
Lee

“Adapt what is
useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” ― Bruce
Lee

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“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a
fool can learn from a wise answer.”

― Bruce Lee

“I fear not the man
who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one
kick 10,000 times.” ― Bruce Lee

“If you always put
limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into
your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and
you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” ― Bruce Lee

“If you spend too
much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.” ― Bruce Lee

“To hell with
circumstances; I create opportunities.” ― Bruce Lee

“A goal is not always
meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ― Bruce
Lee

“The doubters said,

"Man can not fly,"

The doers said,

"Maybe, but we'll try,"

And finally soared

In the morning glow

While non-believers

Watched from below.” ― Bruce Lee

“Don't fear failure.
— Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even
to fail.”

― Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily
Living

“The key to
immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” ― Bruce Lee

“Knowing is not
enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” ― Bruce Lee

“It is not a daily
increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” ― Bruce Lee

“Use only that which
works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“Always be yourself,
express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a
successfull personality and duplicate it.” ― Bruce Lee

“Not being tense but
ready.

Not thinking but not dreaming.

Not being set but flexible.

Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.

It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready
for whatever may come.” ― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“A quick temper will
make a fool of you soon enough.” ― Bruce Lee

“Notice that the
stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by
bending with the wind.” ― Bruce Lee

“Empty your cup so
that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.” ― Bruce Lee

“Forget about winning
and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and
you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his
bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned
with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!” ― Bruce Lee

“The great mistake is
to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of
whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your
tools will strike at the right moment.” ― Bruce Lee

“You must be
shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the
cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour
water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash.
Become like water my friend.” ― Bruce Lee

“A good teacher
protects his pupils from his own influence. ” ― Bruce Lee

“If there is a God,
he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your
inner theme.” ― Bruce Lee